Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri

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Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri is a citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Al Sabri's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 324. American intelligence analysts estimated Al Sabri was born in 1978, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 Allegations
- 1.2 Testimony
2 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

[edit] Allegations

During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Al Sabri's detainee ID.^[2] The allegations he would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban or al Qaida:

The detainee, ########## ########### traveled by plane to Quetta, Pakistan where he contacted the Taliban for assistance in traveling to Afghanistan.
The detainee met with an al Qaida recruiter in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan and stayed for one year and purchased a Russian Makrof pistol [sic] and traveled to the frontlines near Kabul.
The detainee's roommate was a suicide bomber responsible for the USS Cole bombing.
The detainee fled Jalalabad in order to avoid the United States bombing campaign and later turned himself in to Pakistan forces.